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Tag Archives: 1920s
Flight (1929) Frank Capra, Jack Holt, Lila Lee, Ralph Graves
Two Marine pilots in love with the same girl are assigned a mission to find a notorious bandit in Nicaragua. Read More »
Flying Elephants (1928) Frank Butler, Hal Roach, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dorothy Coburn
Laurel & Hardy, in pre-historic times, vie for the hand of the same Stone Age beauty. Read More »
Greed (1924) Erich von Stroheim, Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt
John McTeague was a simple slow man who became a dentist after working at the Big Dipper Gold Mine. Read More »
New York Nights (1929) Lewis Milestone, Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, John Wray
Chorus girl Jill and composer Fred are happily married until he steps out on her with another woman. Read More »
The Taming of the Shrew (1929) Sam Taylor, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Edwin Maxwell
In sixteenth century Padua, Hortensio loves Bianca, the youngest daughter of Baptista. Read More »
The Hole in the Wall (1929) Robert Florey, Claudette Colbert, Edward G. Robinson, David Newell
Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) Read More »
Die Flamme / The Flame (1923) Ernst Lubitsch, Pola Negri, Hermann Thimig, Alfred Abel
In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him. Read More »
Rosita (1923) Ernst Lubitsch, Raoul Walsh, Mary Pickford, Holbrook Blinn, Irene Rich
Rosita, a peasant singer in Seville, captures the attention of the King. Read More »
Our Dancing Daughters (1928) Harry Beaumont, Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Nils Asther
Diana is outwardly the hit of the party but inwardly virtuous and idealistic. Read More »